Nepal makes progress towards peace and stability 2010-01-02Laura Stovel (left) addresses the crowd of 48 people who turned out at the C3 Church above the Royal Bank on Saturday evening for her talk about working with the Carter Centre in post-civil war Nepal. A sociologist, Stovel is a member of the Atlanta-based Carter Centre's team monitoring events in the Himalayan country. During her discussion and slide show, part of the Friends of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier's Adventure Travel Series, she spoke about the progress that Nepal has made since a truce was negotiated between the government and Maoist rebels. David F. Rooney photo